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Even before the events of Nora's early summer twist into sudden nightmare, this book is an extraordinary book. This character is so naked to the reader, and so painfully easy to identify with. Mary Downing Hahn is in her seventies, but has seemingly shot body and soul back into the head of a teenage girl - reading Nora's thoughts is like dropping feet-first into a shockingly cold pool. I read a lot of damn YA, and very rarely do I encounter a character so convincingly inhabited.
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Mister-Death's Blue-Eyed girls is a haunting novel that deals with the unsolved murders of two teenage girls. The books focus is less about the murders themselves but rather the effect it has on the friends and family of the victim. Mary Downing Hahn based the story on a murder that took place in Washington, DC. In the afterward of the book she talks about how this event haunted her throughout her lifetime. The book is well written and the author does a good job with protraying the emotional res
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Apr 25, 2012
Melissa
marked it as to-read
